A Change Is Gonna Come Chords & Tabs

A Change Is Gonna Come Chords

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I have transcribed this song of Sam Cooke (sorry for mistakes!)
as it's performed by Graham Parker in his concert "Live! Alone in
America". I hope to put in this archive other songs of this
finest english songwriter in the future and in the meantime ...
enjoy it!
Angelo Taibi e-mail:taibi@ferrara.infn.it
A CHANGE IS GONNA COME
(capo on the 1st fret!)
F
I was born by the river in a little tent
GmDm
and just like this river I'll be running ever since
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/parker_graham/a_change_is_gonna_come_crd.html ]FGmA#Am
Rit: it's been a long, long time coming but I know
DmF
change it's gonna come oooh yes it is
F
It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die
GmDm
I don't know what's out there, there are only clouds
Rit: it's been a ...
GmF
There was a time I will go to my brother
GmDm
I say you brother (I say you brother) help me please
GmF
he turned me down and then I go to my mother (oh my mother)
A#C
I say you mother I'm down on my knee
F
There was a time when I thought
GmDm
I would last too long somehow I was able to carry on
Rit: it's been a ... (three times)